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by griffinkelly 6y ago
I heard a former RF-4 pilot and POW at the Hanoi Hilton speak; it was honestly one of the best motivational speeches I've ever hear. Talk about a positive look on life. The other amazing thing was seeing him do the 'tap code'
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
Do those companies publish their numbers since they're public?
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
Chicago is having significant population loss, so that gap will only grow. I believe Houston is about to pass Chicago.
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
I have a lot of friends that I grew up are perfectly fine with just working--took a similar-sounding job to you out of college, bought a house, had kids, and really enjoy it. Personally, I get bored easily. I took a similar job to you out o
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
Is found gold bullion taxable? Trying to avoid the IRS?
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
I second this. I think once this starts happening en masse, we'll see a correction in the markets. I dont think we're too far off: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/867856602/millions-of-america...
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
The Republican party has also taken on a lot of 'free agent' groups like the NRA. I believe prior to Nixon, there was no stance on gun control. Nixon saw the NRA as a group that voted and brought them in solely to win, but he was
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
Caper | YC W16 | https://www.caper.ai/ | Remote | Fulltime Caper builds smart shopping carts - powered by deep learning and computer vision - to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience. We differ from other emerging
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
The National Guard is effectively the militia of each state. They report to each governor first, and if activated, report to the US military. A traditional guardsman has a civilian job, 9-5 M-F, then one weekend a month 'drills' a
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
The other thing to think about is, if they activated the entire MN guard, many of these folks are not military police or have received any kind of light MP training. Typically the guard is there to just provide assistance. If they end up do
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
I'm a member of the national guard and I, along with many of my friends, did not sign up to be police officers. That said, in Minnesota they called up every unit it seems. I'd understand civilians to easily confuse police with the
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
As soon as the weather got nice out (from Chicago), my grandmother would immediately start drying clothes outside.
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
What's the difference between the cellular makeup of this octopus/ or any deep sea animal to make it able to sustain that kind of pressure?
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
My uncle worked for AT&T and he said he was installing hardware to do wiretaps all the time. I don't know the exact specifics, but he would only go so far with the tap, someone later would come in and complete it, presumably from t
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
There's a great NPR episode about this. Some interesting laws there, as an American citizen, you can't buy property in American Samoa if you're not Samoan.
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
I was just discussing blue bees with my friend--they're native to Australia. I had no idea they were in North America as well.
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
I grew up in Chicago and love it. A lot of people hate the winters but I welcome it--Ice hockey, cross country skiing, sledding.
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
My dad had a friend who did this in retirement and sailed the entire Caribbean, Mediterranean, and then was doing the Great Lakes last I heard. I'm right there with you on this though. I would love to sail the Pacific and see all the s
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We Should Worry About China and India’s Border Skirmishes(foreignpolicy.com)
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
What would it take for Hong Kong to develop into a full out civil war? I wonder if it could even develop that far.
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
China is capitalizing on this distraction by military shows of force: https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-military-resumed-dri...
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
Good article I read on this a while back: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-bar-code-1...
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
I've been getting all my retail therapy out at the grocery store. It's interesting to think about what long term effects this will have on shopping, particularly retail stores long term. This was a good piece on it: https:/&
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
I was driving the other day on the expressway, three guys lined up across all three lanes and slowed down blocking traffic at ~30mph (typical is 70). Then after about 3 minutes of that and people honking etc, they hit it and probably hit 12
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
I've heard once you get down nearing stall speed, the Cirrus gets pretty difficult to control?
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
Having flown into icing conditions in both airplanes with and without deicing, I can say this is the largest differentiation in my personal comfort level in an airplane.
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
I was talking to a guy in my squadron whos also a rated helicopter pilot when the Kobe crash happened, and he was explaining how much easier it is to become disoriented in a helicopter because you can freely move in any direction, unlike a
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
That's an issue of pilot error, not a difference in the physical airplane.
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
Big issue with light airplanes is you can't fly through serious inclement weather as it'll cause dangerous icing conditions that the big Boeing/Airbus type aircraft can. Some light aircraft have deicing or anti-icing, but its
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by griffinkelly 6y ago
The number of gear up landings on Mooneys surprisingly high. As for cirruses, they are rather unforgiving, and I think people get some confidence with the parachute--every time I hear about an accident, I feel I'm reading about another

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